Psycho (1960)

 

The Birds (1963)

 

I Confess (1953)

Alfred Hitchcock

The Paradine Case (1947)

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

Alfred Hitchcock

Vertigo (1958)

On the set: Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock (2012)

Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma have a little marriage crisis during the filming of Psycho in 1959.

Although it has a more serious topic at its core this movie manages it be a lighthearted and loving homage to the master and presents some enjoyably stellar performances from its cast.

On rewatching: Light-weighted, but quite entertaining depiction of the making of Psycho.

Maltin***: "As an account of the making of PSYCHO this is evocative and fun to watch. As an exploration of what made Hitchcock tick it must be taken as pure entertainment and not literal truth."

Notorious (1946)

Rear Window (1954)

The 39 Steps (1935)

Lifepod (1993)

Nine survivors of an explosion are lost in space, drifting out of rescue range with a saboteur aboard.

A sci-fi reimagination of Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat is OK as standard TV fare, but nowhere comes near the original.

North by Northwest (1959)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Psycho (1998)

A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

Curious experiment - copying a cinema classic shot-by-shot (with an occasional minimal aberration) and offering a star cast and some magnificent color cinematography - never achieves, in any aspect,  the mastery of the original - which in itself is an interesting result.

Halliwell (no star): "A genuine curiosity, though, unfortunately, not a very interesting one: a remake of Hitchcock's thriller that hardly deviates from the original, except that it is in colour, the acting is inferior, and the content is a little tired."

Maltin BOMB: "Slow, stilted, completely pointless scene-for-scene remake...(with a few awkward new touches to taint its claim as an exact replica). The result is an insult, rather than a tribute, to a landmark film."